NEW by
@rrix:
Published version 0.7 of the
Data Rights Protocol
Today we tagged a new version of the Data Rights Protocol, a new “common denominator” for data rights interchange.
Over the coming months we’ll be integrating it in to Consumer Reports’ Permission Slip
and a number of #privacy / data management middleware providers will be integrating it for their customers to provide a simple unified messaging protocol for communicating #datarights requests like data sale #optout,
deletion portability and #DSAR between end users and businesses through this ecosystem of authorized agents and privacy infrastructure providers.
This work will stream-line data rights access for consumers and businesses by moving the cost of identity verification to a one-time action performed by Agent applications, and provide a simple taxonomy for companies to automate their data rights pipelines around.
The system we’re designing operates more like a network of notaries than any sort of self-sovereign hardware-crypto backed decentralized identity system that folks on the Fediverse may be excited by, but this has been designed to target the technology that average consumers and businesses are accessing today while leaving the door open for more exciting technology down the line. It’s JSON, HTTP,
and libsodium.
Without regulatory intervention a system like this will never be comprehensive – there is little reason for the nastier data brokers in
@yaelwrites@mastodon.social
‘s BADBOOL
to implement a DRP interface, but for companies that respect consumers DRP would be a slick part of an automated Data Management/Access/Deletion system that would be cheaper and more resilient than paying a bunch of paralegals to look at blurry smartphone photos of ID cards all day long. With the California Attorney General's recent announcement
that requests submitted by services like Permission Slip should be respected, it's natural for businesses and advocates to build systems that can scale these requests up to a society that wants them but feels disempowered to exercise them in a meaningful way. Data Rights are not going away and ignoring even these baseline rights isn't going to work out so well.
I’ve been really happy to work with @kevinriggle@ioc.exchange on moving the DRP forward toward this 1.0 implementation vision, sharpening our safety/security focus, and building something which is informed by more than just my experience/scars serving DSAR and Portability requests at my last job.
https://arcology.garden/updates#20230215T105038.561441 #DataRights #DSAR #Privacy